Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
135,2 (2023) 278-283
Keywords:
Zedekiah,
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Slavery in the Bible
;
Jerusalem (Israel) In the Bible
Abstract:
King Zedekiah of Judah’s covenant to release Hebrew slaves during the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 588/587 and Jeremiah’s idealistic denunciation of the reclaiming of those slaves in Jer 34 has been the subject of interesting scholarly debate. For all the proposed foreign and intra-Biblical parallels, the policy was purely pragmatic and can be understood as a recognizable strategy from ancient texts that recommend procedures during a siege. Therefore when the siege is temporarily lifted, the policy is reversed.
DOI:
10.1515/zaw-2023-2007
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